Louise O'Neill
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FROM THE WINNER OF THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR AWARD. It's the beginning of the summer in a small town in Ireland. Emma O'Donovan is eighteen years old, beautiful, happy, confident. One night, there's a party. Everyone is there. All eyes are on Emma. The next morning, she wakes on the front porch of her house. She can't remember what happened, she doesn't know how she got there. She doesn't know why she's in pain. But everyone else...
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Freida and Isabel, best friends in a world where women are created for the pleasure of men, near the end of their schooling where they have learned to control their emotions and to scrupulously maintain their appearance. Soon they will be selected as companions--wives to powerful men--if they stay in the top ten beautiful girls in their year. The alternatives, life as a concubine or a chastity, are too horrible to contemplate. As the pressure to be...
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A dark and beautiful reimagining of The Little Mermaid.Deep beneath the sea, off the cold Irish coast, Gaia is a young mermaid who dreams of freedom from her controlling father. On her first swim to the surface, she is drawn towards a human boy. She longs to join his carefree world, but how much will she have to sacrifice? What will it take for the little mermaid to find her voice? Hans Christian Andersen's original fairy tale is reimagined...
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30 years after Disney's The Little Mermaid movie was released, it's time for a feminist reimagining for a new generation.
"A masterpiece" Marian Keyes
"A fierce torrent of a book, raging and forceful and gripping. I was swept away" Kiran Millwood Hargrave
"Her prose cuts and rages and her vision of the Sea Witch is truly transformative" The Observer.
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